First Female NFL Referee Takes the Field!

NFL Preseason AND the Olympics on my TV last week . . .ahhhh . . .music to my eyes and ears.  The coolest thing about the NFL Preseason (maybe the ONLY cool thing) was the first female NFL referee on the field for the first Preseason game last Thursday night!  The regular officials are in…

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Hiring Employees: Assessing Chemistry

                    Free Agency began Tuesday for the NFL.  That means that players are being traded from and acquired by the 32 teams.  We talked about the three criteria used to assess players for the Draft.  These are also used in these Free Agency decisions: Capabilities, Character…

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This is for Mama Myra

So the NFL Playoff games last Sunday were not my favorite.  Both teams I was rooting for lost, and the losses were due to mistakes, glaring examples of players not doing their jobs as well as they usually do.  Was it the added pressure of “this is IT—we win this game and we go to…

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Action Steps From NFL Playoffs

                Ahhhh, the NFL Playoffs last weekend delivered as usual:  thrills and chills, dramatic plays, even touching moments.  Three lessons for US in the real work world stand out to me: 1. Turnovers were the story.  Remember I’m always preaching “interception” in your own life.  I interpret the concept…

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Any Given Sunday: A Lesson For Us Women

                    As your self-appointed “funny football female,” I feel it my duty to make an impassioned plea to watch the NFL Playoffs with your husband, male honey, or hang-with pal.  Not that women aren’t watching.  Sunday Night Football is the fourth most watched program among women…

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Vince Young: A Story of Redemption

When I heard Vince Young was going to be the starting Quarterback on Sunday for the Eagles, since Michael Vick was out with injured ribs, I had a feeling and a hope that Young might have progressed since I wrote about him in my book, Necessary Roughness: New Rules for the Contact Sport of Life.…

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Football Inspiration: Get Your Passion, Folks, from the NFL!

Football is such inspiration…ladies, there is so much to LOVE about watching football, it’s not even funny!  If nothing else, you HAD to love Head Coach Harbaugh of the Baltimore Ravens being all fatherly, and KISSING running back Ray Rice on the head!  I’m telling you, the NFL brings out the beast in men, but…

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